Frederik Pohl has passed away.
GODDAMMIT, Time!
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I need some book recs. I finished The Passage (and loved it), but I don't have the sequel yet. I finished the FitzOsborne books and loved them, too.
I need something I can escape into, something as page-turning as The Passage. To choose from I have Wolf Hall, The Light Between Oceans, The Forgotten Garden, The Little Friend, Dark Places, A Discovery of Witches, and Joe Hill's Horns. Thoughts? (There are dozens of others I could choose from, but I'm looking for longish, engrossing, really removed from my life.)
I would vote for Dark Places,but you didn't like Gone Girl, right? Or am I thinking of someone else? In which case I would vote for Horns, even though I didn't read it. I recently read his NOS4A2 and loved it.
No, I loved Gone Girl and started Dark Places and couldn't get into right away. I'm not sure I'm the mood for someone so hateful, though.
If you liked NOS4A2, try Heart-Shaped Box, his first. It was fantastic.
I hate to say this, because I loved "The Secret History" so, so much, but I found "The Little Friend" really quite boring. And on another downer note, I couldn't get through "A Discovery of Witches" and I was bummed, because I love a good academically oriented paranormal.
I quite like Kate Morton. "The Forgotten Garden" isn't my favorite, but it's nicely engrossing.
ETA: Oh, and for those who liked "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt, I highly rec "Waking the Moon" by Elizabeth Hand.
If you liked NOS4A2, try Heart-Shaped Box, his first. It was fantastic.
I have it on my kindle, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
I highly rec "Waking the Moon" by Elizabeth Hand.
I love that book. So much.
because I love a good academically oriented paranormal.
Have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova?
I'm just waiting for the next Skulduggery Pleasant book (Last Stand of Dead Men) to show up on my doorstep. I should have it Wednesday.
I read Yohnalossee Riding School for Girls (or whatever it's called) and totally did not understand why it was getting such rave reviews. It didn't seem all that great to me. Has anyone else read it?
Have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova?
Yes, and I liked it, although I feel she petered out on the ending. But the rest of it was loads of fun!